In rural Burkina Faso, most people get their drinking water through boreholes, a narrow vertical shaft drilled into the ground. Women and girls are traditionally responsible for fetching water, often traveling for miles several times a week.
This journal article, published in Journal of Environmental Engineering, presents a study of remotely convened WASH sector experts in a multi-round Delphi survey to coalesce sector knowledge on the use of systems approaches for WASH service delive
Professionalized maintenance arrangements are emerging and growing to improve rural water service sustainability across sub-Saharan Africa, where local governments often act as rural service authorities.
This project brief contains a short overview of the Rural Evidence and Learning for Water (REAL-Water) program, discussing intentions, research questions, and collaborators.
This end of project report captures work across the USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) as applied to rural water and small town sanitation services.